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congress finally reached a deal they claim is good for the country but is it really will dive into the law that congress just passed to see who the real winners and losers are. plus it was a massive superstorm that caused billions of dollars of damage in new york and new jersey but before the one hundred twelfth congress came to an end the house g.o.p. punted on hurricane sandy relief so what does this mean for the states and residents left in the dark by their own government. and the pentagon has a problem the u.s. or allies on drones to conduct warfare around the world now they've launched a sixty million dollar effort to prevent a high tech flying machine from being hacked how serious of a problem is the u.s. drone program a problem. it's wednesday january second happy new year everyone it's four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . all right topping the news this hour well they've done it in literally an eleventh hour deal the u.s. house of representatives passed a fiscal cliff budget deal that president obama is expected to sign into law so that's that cri
congress finally reached a deal they claim is good for the country but is it really will dive into the law that congress just passed to see who the real winners and losers are. plus it was a massive superstorm that caused billions of dollars of damage in new york and new jersey but before the one hundred twelfth congress came to an end the house g.o.p. punted on hurricane sandy relief so what does this mean for the states and residents left in the dark by their own government. and the pentagon...
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of representatives passed a fiscal cliff budget deal that president obama is expected to sign into law so that's that crisis averted right well not even close the u.s. might have avoided economic calamity in the short run but the future of the country is still as uncertain as it was before if not more so let's take a look at the scorecard we wanted to know if the u.s. met the fiscal cliff deadline deadline of midnight december thirty first to avoid financial repercussions. no despite the fact that congress had almost a year to act it missed a deadline by a day luckily stock markets were closed on new year's day and closed on a positive note today as a result of this new deal and then there's the whole retroactive agreement saying mean that congress can retroactively decide it did not go over the fiscal cliff when in fact technically it did what about the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration or at the crux of the crisis no final decision on how much to cut and where to cut from has been delayed only by a couple of months what's more. could be even more harsh on military progra
of representatives passed a fiscal cliff budget deal that president obama is expected to sign into law so that's that crisis averted right well not even close the u.s. might have avoided economic calamity in the short run but the future of the country is still as uncertain as it was before if not more so let's take a look at the scorecard we wanted to know if the u.s. met the fiscal cliff deadline deadline of midnight december thirty first to avoid financial repercussions. no despite the fact...
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and local law enforcement f.b.i. d h s and local law enforcement coordinate with each other but i will point out that on page seven of this batch of documents there's a bulletin a safe people and that is being disseminated to by the f.b.i. to a law enforcement center in wisconsin green bay wisconsin and basically all this says is we like to warn you that we found out that occupy protesters may want to shoot police officers does not give any further indication or information rather as to where that where they obtained that information so it would be it would be clear that the that that the information that was being shared possibly led to the way that the police reacted to receiving some from more more documents hopefully just in leopold with truthout thank you thank you but next plan b. failed in the house last week so what's his plan c. and more importantly does president obama have a new plan that doesn't screw over social security recipients fiscal cliff next. wealthy british science it's time to. market why not.
and local law enforcement f.b.i. d h s and local law enforcement coordinate with each other but i will point out that on page seven of this batch of documents there's a bulletin a safe people and that is being disseminated to by the f.b.i. to a law enforcement center in wisconsin green bay wisconsin and basically all this says is we like to warn you that we found out that occupy protesters may want to shoot police officers does not give any further indication or information rather as to where...
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are you know opening their borders to more trade their sort of have a more firm grounding of rule of law and that's spurring some economic growth these are good things but the united states has you know only recently in the past i think five years has the u.s. imposed a domain as a pentagon domain on africa before africa was just left out in the water because it didn't matter much to anybody but now that you know after libya there's been more. al-qaeda so-called you know so-called al-qaeda activity and however small this is and however localized it is because not a direct threat to the united states the united states has said oh we're going to get more involved so we're involved in mali were involved in nigeria were involved in uganda in sort of east african area were involved in somalia and these are all of which serious dangerous trends that we're seeing because most of it's done in secret most of it's done with sort of special ops and drones the american people don't know about it and it could end up very very very poorly for a lot of innocent people in africa i was thinking with fore
are you know opening their borders to more trade their sort of have a more firm grounding of rule of law and that's spurring some economic growth these are good things but the united states has you know only recently in the past i think five years has the u.s. imposed a domain as a pentagon domain on africa before africa was just left out in the water because it didn't matter much to anybody but now that you know after libya there's been more. al-qaeda so-called you know so-called al-qaeda...
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it's tough to say there are still a lot of things happening you know some people think there was a law will after egypt and tunisia. but there are still a lot of things happening i mean jordan right now is facing a lot of domestic. people are very upset with the government they are vying for some sort of constitutional monarchy that is more. that addresses more of their social concerns and doesn't for example torture people and and have a police state which is what they essentially have crane is still you know people are still fighting for freedom they're they're they're still out in the streets despite a ban on all demonstrations and protests. which the bahraini government has imposed with american support. but you know we'll have to see i think yemen will continue to be a very disappointing area of the arab spring you know there's a lot of protests that tried to oust the previous president ali abdullah saleh and now this guy months or hadi is in and he has become such an immediate american puppet with increased american aid and military assistance basically a bribe so he can continue
it's tough to say there are still a lot of things happening you know some people think there was a law will after egypt and tunisia. but there are still a lot of things happening i mean jordan right now is facing a lot of domestic. people are very upset with the government they are vying for some sort of constitutional monarchy that is more. that addresses more of their social concerns and doesn't for example torture people and and have a police state which is what they essentially have crane...
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unconstitutional justices have just got it was the centerpiece provisions of the obama health care law ok yeah it's exact that's the final word on the individual mandate that could be a little bit more complicated but i didn't complete their formation we're going to inflicting information as you say there's some confusion there are conflicting reports coming in from inside the supreme court so let's let's try and drawing these final conclusions are still trying to figure this out be cautious with this we're trying to do the best we can right now as we sort through it and we need it later a lower third actually may not be correct or a take several minutes as reading through this again i we are reading now that the entire law has been held while this after that list was released i spoke about it with christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. there was a little tinge against fox in there and i would probably be a little bit more critical of fox because both of their mistakes are basically allegory or metaphors for what's wrong with both networks c.n.n. did rush t
unconstitutional justices have just got it was the centerpiece provisions of the obama health care law ok yeah it's exact that's the final word on the individual mandate that could be a little bit more complicated but i didn't complete their formation we're going to inflicting information as you say there's some confusion there are conflicting reports coming in from inside the supreme court so let's let's try and drawing these final conclusions are still trying to figure this out be cautious...